Promoting SME Competitiveness in the Caribbean through Technical Standards

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The goal of the project is to strengthen the competitiveness of recipient small and medium enterprises by getting them involved in industry, country and region-wide standardisation efforts to facilitate trade in goods and services and promote regional, hemispheric and global integration. Its purpose is to build on the existing infrastructure of regional standardisation and develop a model for technical standard setting, demostrating to government and the private sector its strategic importance for trade facilitation and, hence, the need to ensure its sustainability through a steady demand for standards development with an increasingly large share of cofinancing furnished by stakeholders.